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Tagged: Star-borne Feeder

An imagined translucent headless feeder with many sucker-tipped appendages looms above a scholar’s table.
Entities & creatures

Star-borne Feeder

The star-borne feeder is the initially invisible entity summoned in Robert Bloch’s The Shambler from the Stars. It kills the reader of an invocation in De Vermis Mysteriis, and the blood it consumes reveals a fluid, many-appendaged body without a head, face or eyes. This descriptive entry concerns Bloch’s witnessed creature, without imposing a complete later species taxonomy.

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An imagined translucent headless feeder with many sucker-tipped appendages looms above a scholar’s table.
Literature

The Shambler from the Stars

The Shambler from the Stars is Robert Bloch’s account of a struggling writer whose desire for unprecedented horror fiction leads him to a dangerous book and a fatal act of reading. The summoned creature is initially invisible; its feeding makes its outline perceptible. The survivor destroys physical evidence but cannot restore the distance between literary ambition and lived terror.

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